🛡️ CVE-2022-2906 on Alpine — bind

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
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CVSS Score
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Description

An attacker can leverage this flaw to gradually erode available memory to the point where named crashes for lack of resources. Upon restart the attacker would have to begin again, but nevertheless there is the potential to deny service.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2022-2906 as tracked by Alpine, for the package bind. The fix is available in version 9.18.7-r0; earlier versions remain affected.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

Affected software

ALPINE-CVE-2022-2906 is recorded against 1 package.

  • bind (from 9.18.0 up to 9.18.7-r0)

Timeline and source

Published on 21 September 2022 and last revised on 8 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

security.alpinelinux.org (Advisory)

CVE-2022-2906 on other distributions

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Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-09-21
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-07-08
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
bind 9.18.0 9.18.7-r0

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